a while ago

Their father left to work in Ireland a while ago, but he promised to buy Ola a car as soon as she learns how to drive.

"The Israeli warplanes launched a violent raid a while ago, the second on the southern suburb today, as smoke clouds are seen rising in the air," they wrote.

“He's really too bright to keep coming back again and again and again - somebody like Fletcher would have given up crime a while ago.”

He got it at some gay bar a while ago, and it works on multiple levels, he jokes.

I made this quite a while ago now, three or four years ago, with some of my best friends in the world.